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Jeff Counsell, managing director of Trent Barton, which runs the service, said: "Passengers will think it strange indeed that their pass is valid on the journey from Derby to Nottingham but not on the identical trip in the other direction."

But the deputy leader of the city council, Graham Chapman, said the scheme was "no longer affordable."

The council is currently carrying out a public consultation on its budget plans for 2016-17.